Although I personally find Scrat from Ice Age one of the most annoying things in the world, I know a lot of people like him. Now a second Scrat short, made as a teaser for next year’s Ice Age: Continental Drift has shown up online. In the new Ice Age movie, Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he’s been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences – a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid. In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home.
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Don’t Go In The Woods Trailer
Actor Vincent D’Onofrio makes his debut as a director with this genre horror tale of kids out in the woods. The explores love, greed and ruthlessness in a twisted musical/horror hybrid, telling the story of a young band who heads to the woods to get away from their everyday lives in order to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to walk away from the trip with new tunes that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension. No UK release date is currently set but click below for the trailer.
David Oyelowo Joins Lincoln
Steven Spielberg’s biopic of Lincoln already has an incredibly impressive cast, and now it’s added another talented name to the ranks, British actor David Oyelowo. He joins Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Lee Pace, David Strathairn, Jackie Early Haley and loads more illustrious names.
However all those people previously cast were noticeably white, and seeing as the film will focus on the last few years of Abraham Lincoln’s life, when he was engaged in an enormous civil war largely over the issue of ending slavery, you’d think they might find some space for some black faces.
Now Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Help star Oyelowo has come onboard, according to Deadline. However it doesn’t sound like he’s going to have a particularly big role, as he’ll be playing cavalryman (we can already see the scene of Lincoln being inspired to carry on the fight by Oyelowo’s black cavalryman, going off to war to help his enslaved brothers).
Oyelowo is already currently filming the Tom Cruise flick One Shot, so he’s pretty busy at the moment, but has managed to slot in Spielberg’s film, shooting both roles concurrently. Lincoln will be in cinemas at the end of 2012.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Gerard Butler Turning Mercenary
Both Ridley Scott and Gerard Butler love lining up endless projects that they put into development and wait to percolate, and now they’ve got one they want to make together, although it’s unlikely to be the next project for either. According to Deadline, Scott and Butler are tempting studios with a pitch they’re both on-board for, about mercenary Simon Mann.
Mann is ‘A former British army officer who in 2004 put together a band of mercenaries to attempt a coup against the president of Equatorial Guinea. The coup attempt was thwarted in Zimbabwe, where Mann went to pick up weapons. He spent five years in a harsh prison there before being taken to Equatorial Guinea where he was sentenced to 34 years–but spared that sentence when he received a presidential pardon in 2009.. His backers – Mann said one was Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher – disavowed involvement with Mann after the coup failed.’
Mann himself is involved with the film and he and his wife Amanda have been making the rounds at the studios, making a pitch for the movie. Insiders say there are high hopes this will end in a deal – and with Scott and Butler attached, it almost certainly will.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Gone Trailer
If you ask me, it looks like a rather OTT episode of Criminal Minds, but Amanda Seyfried is having a lot of trouble with a serial killer in Gone. She plays Jill Parrish (Seyfried), who returns home from the night shift to find her sister’s bed empty, and is convinced that the serial killer who kidnapped her two years before has come back to finish the job. However the police do not believe her and Jill knows time is running out. With no one to turn to, Jill sets off to find her sister and face her abductor once and for all. The film is due out early next year.
Fincher Re-Teaming With Se7en Writer For 20,000 Leagues
It’s taking them a long time to develop it, but David Fincher is still keen to direct Disney’s new take on the classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, seeing it as his chance to make a massive tentpole family movie.
Getting the screenplay right is proving tough though. Numerous writers have had a crack at the script, including Scott Z. Burns, Michael Chabon, Justin Marks, Bill Marsilii and Randall Wallace, but now Deadline reports that Fincher is going to a name from his past to see what he can come up with – Andrew Kevin Walker.
Walker and Fincher both made their names with Se7en, but haven’t worked together properly since. Jules Verne’s book is about the adventures of Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the submarine, Nautilus. However it’s believed the film will bear little resemblance to the book, other than the three characters, Captain Nemo, French marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax, and master harpoonist Ned Land.
It still isn’t knownn when 20,000 Leagues will go into production, although it may be a while, as it’s known that Disney is already worried about how many massive budget movies it’s got in production, so will likely want to clear its decks a little before making this one.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Luke Wilson and Kevin Connolly Join Elvis & Nixon
Last week it was announced that Eric Bana had signed on to play Elvis Presley and Danny Huston would be Richard Nixon in Elvis & Nixon, which marks the directorial debut of actor Cary Elwes. It’s an unusual mix of talent and subject matter, and not a couple more actors have joined the throng, with Kevin Connolly and Luke Wilson both in talks for the movie.
The movie centres on a real-life 1970 meeting between the President and the King at the White House, which took place after Elvis Presley wrote a six-page letter requesting permission to visit. Luke Wilson will play Sonny, a member of Elvis Presley’s “Memphis Mafia,” who accompanies the rock icon on his Washington visit. Kevin Connolly will play a limo driver named Ronnie.
Cary Elwes will direct Elvis & Nixon from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joe Sagal and Hanala Sagal. Production will begin this coming January in Louisiana.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Hugo’s Asa Butterfield Up For Ender’s Game
With Hugo due out next month, young Asa Butterfield is likely to become a lot more in demand, and so it seems Summit Entertainment wants to get in there first as they’ve offered him the lead in Ender’s Game, according to Deadline. It isn’t known if he plans to accept the offer yet.
Ender’s Game is based on the award-winning sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card, which revolves around a government program where gifted children are trained to prevent an imminent alien attack. They square off in a game described as a mix Quiddich and Star Wars’ light saber duels. Butterfield has been offered the title role of Ender, who emerges as a brilliant strategist and may be Earth’s best hope to defeat the alien scourge.
Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is set to direct Ender’s Game from his own adapted screenplay. It isn’t known when production may begin on Ender’s Game, although Summit Entertainment has already issued a March, 2013 release date.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Angelina Jolie Set To Play Gertrude Bell
We haven’t seen Angelina Jolie on screen since The Tourist, as she’s been busy with her directorial debut, In The Land Of Blood And Honey. She does have a few things, such as Cleopatra, in development, but nothing that looks like it’ll be happening anytime soon. Now she’s signed up for a new movie, as THR reports that she’s attached to star in Gertrude Bell.
Ridley Scott is set to direct the biopic of Bell, who was a seminal Middle East figure in the early 1900s, after leaving her upper-class English roots behind. She established the boundaries and framework for what would become the countries Jordan and Iraq. During World War I, she became a spy for British Intelligence, and her work helped put an end to the Ottoman Empire.
Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardener) is writing the movie, with the screenplays currently being reworked to suit Angelina Jolie. However it isn’t certain when the film might get made, as despite the presence of Scott and Jolie, it’s not set up at a studio as yet. The film is one of three projects that Ridley Scott may direct after he finishes work on Prometheus. Gucci is another movie the director is considering as well as the murder mystery Child 44, but it isn’t known which he will choose (or when).
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
Tarsem To Direct Killing on Carnival Row
Tarsem Singh is certain speeding up his rating of making movies. It’s taken him 11 years to get three movies into cinemas (The Cell, The Fall, Immortals), but his fourth movie, Mirror Mirror, is coming up fast next March and now he’s already planning what he’ll do next.
Deadline reports that Tarsem has signed on to direct Killing on Carnival Row, a movie which has been in development since November 2005. Travis Beacham wrote the script, which is set in a mystical city dubbed Burgue, where both humans and bizarre creatures co-exist. However a serial killer is roaming the streets, and that needs to be sorted out. Killing on Carnival Row was the first script Beacham sold, and paved the way for his work on Clash of the Titans, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Pacific Rim.
Producers Arnold Kopelson and Anne Kopelson are currently in talks with a studio to finance the film, although nothing is finalised yet. They’re also hoping to shoot next June.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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